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Millinocket Fire Department

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Bar Harbor Fire Department

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Presque Isle Fire Department

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Waldoboro Fire Department

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Hose 5 Fire Museum

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeast Airlines DC-3, Presque Isle, ca. 1945

"… Northeast Airlines air crews performed survey and rescue flights from Presque Isle from 1941-1945. Commercial service resumed at the airfield about…"

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"A horse was trapped in the stable but later rescued. Cyclone, Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1895Hubbard Free Library Half of the Cotton Mill roof was…"

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"… bore conflicting accounts in the rush to rescue. The Lubec Herald says that “”Miss Stella Burhoe plunged in and succeeded in saving Miriam Kelley”…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"When the British burned Washington in 1814, she rescued the full-length portrait of George Washington from the East Room."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… High School, the principal and several students rescued 19 typewriters and all of the school’s trophies before the fire consumed the building."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"Scarborough was the first town in Maine to have a rescue service, and later the group helped set up units in Standish and Cape Elizabeth."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"… spent ten hours in a lifeboat before being rescued. She excelled in her work at the Casablanca Conference and became noticed by Supreme Commander…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"Folks near Galway rescued him. He sent a report back to the ship owners and was given passage back to the States by the Irish government."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"All the rescued goods were stored in the nearby Methodist Church, while the store was rebuilt. Today a portion of that building makes up part of…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"Local rescue teams were trained to handle injuries that might occur from an invasion or bombing A look out station, with the code name Esther 74, was…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… were able to get a line onto the ship and safely rescue the crew. There was one fatality earlier when the ship was struck by a large wave and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"With the 1960's came a medical club, a junior rescue organization, a ski club, pep club, future teachers of America, and a volunteer production staff."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"While hanging on to the trestle waiting to be rescued, he watched the dory dock at the Lubec boat landing and unload most of the workers."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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